FOH'ers Daily Smoke

[Puros Y Vino]

Smoking one in memory of a good buddy that passed away three years ago.  This beer and cigar are for you Dude.  ?

 

[FatherOfPugs]

Today's beach cigar. Gorgeous day, people out and about, relaxing, laughing, playing with their kiddos, and enjoying living which it seems a lot of folks have forgotten how to do. 

[Goodfortune]

Montecristo No. 2 REG JUN 18

Reviewed it today for the Top 5 Tastiest Cigar Weekend Review. Restored my faith in these!!

 

[havanaclub]

It was a great cigar. Wish I stocked up on them before it was discontinued and reintroduced as a Edicion Regional. Hopefully, the popularity in this vitola would lead to a reintroduction as a regular production like the Trinidad Vigia.


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Wait the Vigia is an old trinny vitola?
Or do you mean the Topes?


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[havanaclub]

ARS OCT 18 Trova with some iced coffee. Just outstanding!


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[Guest Nekhyludov]

ULA JUN 15 Libertadors

[BlueRidgeFly]

PLP GOS MAR 19. I like 'em.

HdM Epi 2 2019, FOH clearance. This was excellent, and I can see that these will probably improve.

D4, JUN or JUL 19 and a little Laphroaig 10

[TNT009]

 

[BigGuns]

Poolside RASS after a recovery Monday...

Following up with a ‘12 shorty. It’s been a good afternoon...

[GVan]

(ESL SEP-18) HU MAG 50 - first one was fantastic, this one was a windpipe - oh well; @Devo liked his so we're batting .666 with this box so far!  Couldn't finish mine so went to a (LGR NOV-17) SCdlH Principe to finish the evening.

Monte PE (LMB JAN-18) dry boxed this for about 10 days at 57% rH - too much - band was really loose and was a windpipe.  So, tried the dipping in water trick from FOHrensics and couldn't believe how much the draw improved as well as it was a great smoke!  Pretty cool!

[Ej456]

Punch Tubo. Nice relaxing smoke 

Doubled up on the punch

[Mr.T]

 

How was the new Ardbeg? I’ve heard good things about it and am excited to try and see a new age statement added to their regular lineup...


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[barry12321]

'18 Siglo II 

[SigmundChurchill]

CPE

Drone pic, smoking an Esmeralda

CoRo with a funky burn.

Topes

[JayHabanos]

Partagas


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[Chucko8]

C&C today with an old faithful PLMC

[NW_Oregon]

Finally tried the HuHC, LOS NOV 19, ROTT. smoking great, with some wild flavor notes.

[Raskol]

C&C Time. Parti Serie E2 (2018) - 24:24

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[Paso]

Brilliant Party P2

SLR Regios GOB ENE 20

FOH 2424

so young and such a nice smoke !

[gojira]

Fundadores EL NNSC

 

[Taco]

Punch Punch ? 

 

[StogieSteve23]

ARS ENE-19 Famosos.  Hazelnut, creamy cashews, cedar and a hint of lemongrass.  

ASU MAR-19 No. 1 from 24:24. Mossy and vegetal with a slight sweetness like milk chocolate covered raisins. 

 

[CampDelta369]

@RaskolC&C Time with Fundadores. 

[Markspring1978]

Sig 3, 2016

[JohnS]

H. Upmann Petit Coronas LUB May 2014

The H.Upmann Petit Corona was discontinued by Habanos S.A in 2017. In comparison to other marevas cigars, such as the Montecristo No.4, it was never a big seller. This was evident from the availability of stock after the cigar was mooted for discontinuation. I seem to remember that on-line vendors had them in stock for the greater majority of that year.

This H.Upmann Petit Corona was similar to my last one a few months ago. That is, it was quite good, but not as creamy as I like it. Flavours were similar too with light espresso coffee, cedar, shortbread, a hint of white pepper and a some licorice sweetness. Creaminess was again evident but it was minimal. I'm starting to equate the licorice flavour in this intermediate period between youthful long-term rest and older long-term aging as the flavour one gets in the crossover period when these have more leather in that youth and more creaminess in their long-term age period.

H. Upmann Magnum 46 (circa 2018)

If we ask ourselves honestly, I'd think we'd admit that we all have one or two marcas or vitolas we predominantly don't favour despite trying over a long period of time. Despite my last H.Upmann Magnum 46 around 4 months ago being excellent, the H.Upmann Magnum 46 is one such cigar, for me.

In general, I find H.Upmann needs time, for my taste, to reach its peak and I definitely favour the softer shortbread-laden varieties such as the Connossieur A, Connoisseur No.1 and Sir Winston rather than the powerhouse, when young, espresso-laden Magnum 46, Half Corona and (now deleted) Petit Corona. In any case, I will tend to age my Upmann stock, except I'm partial to smoking the aforementioned 'softer' cigars (in terms of flavour intensity) younger.

This Magnum 46 had some harshness on the edges, some shortbread and cedar, a core strong, dark espresso coffee and a little licorice sweetness which overall made it quite an acceptable cigar; it just wasn't to my preference.

Kudos to you if you love the H.Upmann Magnum 46 and it is in your 'go-to' rotation. One thing I can say about it, it is a dependable cigar; both in flavour and construction, in general.